gilad erdan is commando forces, brigades these are 2500 terrorists that are well-trained. well experienced from the war in syria. these guys, these terrorists are deployed on the lebanese border for the last year end a half. arthel: that is very concerning pray just before i go if you could, do you have any idea of how idf might be able to get the hostages home free and safe? >> i must tell you in this respect, i am sorry the less talking the better. we don't even know how many exactly were taken hostage. and this is a situation we have never experienced with regard to 100 hostages. i guess international pressure is extremely needed here. pressure is externally needed here. i believe not all of them are israeli citizenship. probably more citizenships there. we would need help around us. we would need international pressure here. arthel: i hear you loud and clear. thank you very much lieutenant colonel sarit zehavi thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. eric: we've heard the horrible sores is really huddle in fear as hamas fighters break down the doors,

good evening jon for israel un ambassador gilad erdan said he got it broken to homes gathered familiesnto rooms and shot them pointblank. among those who were able to survive the seizure mothers, fathers, children they have now been taken hostage in the region for the ambassador saying there are even holocaust survivors who were taken hostage, dragged into gaza per the ambassador saying using the photos and videos to show the brutality unfolding, watch. >> look at this grandmother being forced to hold a hamas terrorist rifle as he takes a picture with her. this is inhumane. inhumane. just look at this photo of the bodies of women strewn in the streets and the bus stop. >> ambassador gilad erdan remarks ahead of the u.s. un comes as pro-israel demonstrators take to the new york city street securing israel's flag or waving signs with pro-israel messages. gilad erdan singh israel's calling on the united nations and the world to condemn hamas' actions calling this israel's 911. he was also asked to respond to countries who said this sort of violence in the region will continue without a tw

european diplomacy, josep bareil, israel but in the person of prion’s permanent representative, gilad erdancusation of inhumanity was decided upward. accusing the united nations of turning a blind eye to hamas weapons. however, according to press reports, jerusalem itself turned a blind eye to this. thus , times of israel reported that local intelligence services received information about hamas preparing for military action in the gaza strip, but mistakenly mistook it for a training exercise. the american woll street journal writes that at the time of the october 7 attack, hamas had detailed maps of the city and military bases, as well as detailed information about the weaknesses of israeli armored vehicles. cnn, relying on satellite images and videos published by hamas on the internet, states that over the past six months the militants were carefully preparing for the attack in at least six locations throughout the gaza strip, including a camp built just miles from the israeli-palestinian border. the fact that hamas has been preparing for an attack in plain sight for at least two years ra

the israeli delgate gilad erdan spoke next — here's what he said. (take sot) here's what he said.ideologyjust like isis, al-qaeda, or the ayatollah regime of iran is notjust about destroying israel. you all know it, it is ultimately about world domination, world. it's about ringing thejihad warto world domination, world. it's about ringing thejihad war to the world domination, world. it's about ringing the jihad war to the soil of each and every one of your countries. they will not stop until they murder all of the infidels as they murder all of the infidels as they call us. colleagues for the past 16 years the international community and the un have been complacent to hamas�* terrible build up complacent to hamas�* terrible build up in gaza. complacent. the world has kept its head in the sand as they buried their rockets deep within and under the civilian population of gaza. it excepted an absurd reality that the law—abiding democracy could live side by side with genocidal terroristic fire, tens of thousands of missiles indiscriminately at our civilians, unprovoked. we have seen

prion permanent representative gilad erdan rejected the accusation of inhumaneness of the decision ,e united nations of turning a blind eye to hamas's weapons for many years. however, according to press reports, jerusalem itself turned a blind eye to this; times of israel reported that local intelligence services received information about hamas’ preparations for military action in the gaza strip, but mistakenly took it for a training exercise. american. writes that at the time of the october 7 attack, hamas had detailed maps of the city and military bases, as well as detailed information about the weaknesses of israeli armored vehicles. cnn, relying on satellite images and videos published by hamas on the internet, states that over the past six months , militant groups have carefully prepared for attacked in at least six locations across the gaza strip, including a camp built just miles from the israeli-palestinian border. the fact that. had been preparing for the attack in plain sight for at least two years, raises further questions about why israel, home to the most sensitive mili

israel excludes peace negotiations with the hamas group, the country's un post-press, gilad erdan, stated. on the eve of an emergency meeting of the security council on the middle east, the meeting starts these minutes in a closed format, meanwhile , footage of the destruction of a group of hamas militants on the border with the gaza strip has been published. the israel defense forces, which is now clearing the territory of saboteurs, launched an air strike against them. we will learn about the current situation in israel from the chief of our middle east bureau, sergei pashkov. sergey, hello, how are things going? operation to eliminate hamas sabotage groups and how intense is the exchange of missile strikes now? the exchange of missile strikes has been continuing for the last few hours, although over the major central cities of israel, the hell alarm siren has not sounded for a whole day. mainly rocket salvoes, brigades from gaza. now they are covering sdyrot and nearby settlements to the gas sector, i must say that the long-suffering sdyrot is now still under siege, a message has arriv

the permanent representative of israel to the united nations, gilad erdan, has spoken to the media.t days have been devastating for each and every israeli. israel's suffered an unprecedented attack and the number of casualties is catastrophic. truly unfathomable. over the past two days, following hamas�*s surprise attack on israel, my country has suffered hundreds of fatalities. yesterday, in the early morning of the jewish sabbath — and on a jewish holiday — savage hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets into israel. but this was only the beginning. as rockets rained down indiscriminately upon israeli towns and cities, hundreds of hamas terrorists infiltrated israel and began a barbaric pogrom. a barbaric pogrom of unparalleled magnitude. ruthless terrorists gunned down innocent israeli civilians in the streets, murdering anything that moved. as the security council prepares to meet today, israel has one sole demand — hamas�*s war crimes must be unequivocally condemned. this unimaginable atrocity must be condemned. israel must be given steadfast support to defend ourselves, to

back to the fact that since you mentioned the un mustafa faturi, we had the ambassador of the un, gilad erdannitarian affairs martin griffids for that and uh slammed the un secretary general gutieresh um that uh he said the poling attacks by hamas against israel cannot justify the collective punishment for the palestinian peoples but uteres has said what why is it that uh israel is coming out that way slamming the un. i mean i understand why they've done it but is it maybe that that this would give them an excuse for the un to perhaps want to follow through with investigations maybe later on or maybe to. push for aid and now it's trying to use this against it? no, i mean, i mean, we have to remember for the last 75 years since the israeli entity was created, it was created against the international law, against the resolutions of the united nations, especially the resolution of the general assembly number 181, 1947, and ever since they have disregard complete. regard for the united nations, they never collaborate collaborated with the united nations and voice, they are involved in killing one

the israeli ambassador, gilad erdan, claimed in the chamber after the vote that there was no humanitarians in gaza and attacked the un's legitimacy. this organisation was founded in the wake of the holocaust for the purpose of preventing atrocities, yet the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the un is committed, sadly, tragically, not to preventing, but ensuring further atrocities. whether action here in the general assembly changes anything is debatable. still, just blocks away from the un, hundreds of protesters wanting a ceasefire shut down grand central terminal. another indication that calls for an end to the war are growing, as are fears that it could spread further into the region. nada tawfik, bbc news, at the united nations in new york. we are hearing the continuing sounds of firing on gaza. it is worth just showing you, as well, even though the skyline is really foggy now and even though that smoke has really blotted out a lot of what you can see, very loud explosions we have just heard, you can see they're right in the centre of the picture there was a column of s

the israeli ambassador gilad erdan spoke next — here's some of what he said.more. our goal is to completely eradicate hamas's capabilities, and we will use every means at our disposal to accomplish this. not for revenge? n0~ _ not for retaliation, no. but to ensure that such depravity, such atrocities, never occui’s again. here's more from our correspondent nada tawfik. more than 100 countries are yet to speak, but we've been hearing already from arab delegations and israel on their views on this resolution which is largely humanitarian, calling for a ceasefire, calling for unhindered aid access and the protection of civilians. we first heard from the palestinian ambassador, who asked why there wasn't more urgency to act to stop the killing in gaza, and thejordanian foreign minister, who spoke on behalf of 22 arab nations, saying that collective punishment was not self defence, that it was a war crime, and he echoed many of the palestinian ambassador�*s comments, saying that israel had made gaza a perpetual hell on earth. we heard from israel's ambassador to t

. >> ambassador gilad erdan, thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll be right back. >> thank you very much, anderson. >>> it's obviously a very tense situation on the ground, particularly along the border. we are following the gaza side of the story and what life has been like there for the last two days. >> absolutely, anderson. and when it comes to the goal, the objective inside the gaza strip, for israel there's absolutely the short term and the long term here. first and foremost it's going to be those hostages. prime minister netanyahu has vowed to essentially break the back of hamas, make sure that they can never carry out anything like this again but actually doing that, that's really complicated. take a look. >> reporter: these are the first moments of what prime minister netanyahu warned will be a long and difficult war. air strikes in the densely populated gaza strip that the palestinian health ministry said left hundreds dead and thousands more wounded. israeli's military says it is targeting headquarters belonging to hamas and islamic

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the israeli un ambassador, gilad erdan, spoke of what he called barbaric hamas terrorists launching anion on israel. he said the special un session had nothing to do with peace. hamas is a proscribed terror organisation by both the uk and the usa. we'll hear from both later israel has continued its air strikes have today, this the scene in khan younis. gaza's hamas?controlled health ministry says more than 7,000 people have been killed since the bombardment began — an increase of 500 since wednesday. and hamas says it estimates that 50 of the hostages it took have been killed as a result of israel's bombing, in retaliation for hamas�*s brutal attacks on southern israel on october seven. this has not been verified by the bbc. taking a look at the overall scale of destruction. this satellite image from maxar shows an area in northern gaza before october 7th. this is the same area a few days ago. you can see the extent of the damage. our first report is from our international editorjeremy bowen. for hours, we could hear the explosions around ten kilometres away in israel. it was the bigge

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its envoy to the united nations gilad erdan calling for antony blinken to resign immediately, saying he is not fit to lead the united nations, and accusing him of tolerating terrorism for those comments about hamas' attack not taking place in a vacuum. but, of course, against this backdrop, israel is no stranger to criticism from the united nations or rows with the united nations. at the same time, the united states is not yet calling for a ceasefire until the hostages have been freed, and i think until the united states changes its position, and that doesn't seem likely right at this moment, then israel will still feel free to try to carry out its objectives. because from israel's perspective, the real problem here is amid the calls for a ceasefire, from its perspective, it has yet to raeally achieve ay of its objectives. hamas is still firing rockets towards civilians. it managed to intercept a cell of divers emerging into the tunnels of the sea off the coast of the northern gaza strip. it hasn't freed the vast majority of the hostages. there is still about 220 being held by hamas.

israel's ambassador to the united nations, gilad erdan, said the total number of hostages seized is betweenricans since the tehran embassy crisis in 1979. the outgoing house speaker kevin mccarthy has told the white house that a "rescue of all american hostages" should be the united states's top priority. quite obviously, that gives hamas some leverage. how long will it be before an americans is paraded on television pleading for the white house to stop the bombardement? and there is every likelihood that these hostages have been divided across unmapped underground sites throughout gaza, which makes any rescue operation difficult. let's speak now to nahar neta — who's 66 year old mother adrienne is believed to have been taken hostage on saturday morning in kibbutz be'eri near the boarder with gaza. iamso i am so sorry you're going through this situation. have you had any information from the israeli government?— information from the israeli rovernment? ., . ., �* ., government? know. we haven't had any information from _ government? know. we haven't had any information from the _ government

i want to put this sound bite on, gilad erdan, he said this. >> we need to strike residential areas in gaza because the terrorists as we know they hide amongst civilians, they use them as human shields. and if we truly want to eradicate the hamas terrorist infrastructure we have to continue the military operation. it will take weeks if not more. >> trace: do you agree, ambassador, because on the right-hand side of the screen we are kind of watching a gaza city. we expect the ground invasion is eminent. do you agree that these forces should go in and attack residential areas of gaza? this is an all or nothing proposition? >> trace, our goal is very simple, eradicate hamas period. we are facing a isis terrorist group. we have seen what they are capable of going. since the date of the holocaust we haven't seen such atrocities, in one day, more than one thousand jews being slaughtered. in our nation, in our independent country, we don't have any other option but to go and find those terrorists, barbaric terrorists and kill them. how do you do that? we don't intend to hurt civilian on payin

welcome to the final hour of "fox & friends" where we're joined by gilad erdan, the ambassador to the u.n. here on the couch with us in new york. happy to have you with you this morning. obviously our thoughts, our prayers with your entire nation. what can you tell us this morning is the latest of what's happening in israel? >> thank you for having me. these are devastating days for all israelis and as you showed your viewers, the numbers are unfathomable. i mean, we're -- we experienced an unpr dented attack -- unprecedented attack during our you jewish holiday, on the jewish sabbath. hundreds of israeli civilians were butchered in the streets, grandparents were -- and the elderly were taken, dragged from their homes into gaza, mothers with their babies, sometimes only the babies were taken hostage. it's really unfathomable. unfathomable. and 600 -- i hope everyone understands, 600 fatalities in israel, pro force nailly, is like -- pro p proportionally lie having 20,000 american fatalities, 20,000 people who are being butchered, massacred by these savage terrorists. it's our 9/11. we

gilad erdan. we have to put this tragedy in perspective and the lives that were lost including oftentimes young people that were just getting together for an event, a festival to celebrate music and fun and having a good life. jonathan joins us. he is the father of a man that is missing after this hamas attack. jonathan, good to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: what have you heard on where your son might be? what have you heard, period? >> well, with your permission, i think this needs a bit of background. my son and i and the rest of our family live on a kibbutz, a cooperative farm along the border that was attacked by hamas terrorists saturday morning. i and dozens of other families on my kibbutz alone lost contact with our loved ones, those that were not murdered on the spot, lost contact with people taking in to -- that are hostages now in gaza around 9:30 in the morning saturday. from that point forward, we have heard nothing from hamas about their condition, if they're alive. we a

is a stunning diplomatic news breaking news here at the united nations with israeli ambassador gilad erdanalling on secretary guterres to resign because of his remarks. some are taking his remarks as justified in the terrorism, blaming the savage barbaric savagery and murder by the terrorists of hamas directly on the israeli occupation. not the first time the secretary general has used those terms that events in the middle east have not happened in a vacuum. he did refer to the 56 years of what he called israeli occupation. this has caused -- raised the hackles not just of the israeli u.n. delegation but also eli cohen canceled a meeting he had with the secretary general after the security council speech in which he gave earlier this morning. let me read to you a little bit of what the u.n. ambassador has tweeted out, he said "the shocking speech by the u.n. secretary general while rockets are being fired at israel proved beyond any doubt the secretary general is completely disconnected from reality in our region, goes on to say that he shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder,

tonight, israel's ambassador to the un, gilad erdan, has called for the resignation of the un secretaryal antonio guterres, following his speech at the meeting of the un security council in new york. guterres, who has called for an humanitarian ceasefire, said that the october the 7th attack by hamas on israel did not happen in a vacuum, but that the palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. he also said that the grievances of the palestinine people cannot justify the appalling attacks by hamas, and those appalling attacks cannotjustify the collective punishment of the palestinian people. the palestinians are divided by israeli land, walls and fences. three million palestinians who live in the occupied west bank live with something that looks like a more functional government — it has ministries, ambassadors posted throughout the world and secular politics. but the palestinian authority hasn't held elections for more than 15 years, and it also seems unable to stop the increasing encroachment of israeli settlements into palestinian land in the west ban

the israeli ambassador, gilad erdan, claimed in the chamber after the vote that there was no humanitarianhe purpose of preventing atrocities, yet the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the un is committed, sadly, tragically, not to preventing, but ensuring further atrocities. whether action here in the general assembly changes anything is debatable. still, just blocks away from the un, hundreds of protesters wanting a ceasefire shut down grand central terminal. another indication that calls for an end to the war are growing, as are fears that it could spread further into the region. nada tawfik, bbc news, at the united nations in new york. well, that is what has been happening in new york. i want to show you some of the protests happening around the world. protesters showing solidarity with palestinians and also protests happening, and it is worth saying you will be able to hear these continuing explosions around me as we talk this morning. just very close to where we are with the border of gaza, in case you can hear those sounds of explosions, it is the continuing bombardme

the israeli ambassador to the united nations gilad erdan saying he has to step down because the u.n. has lost its moral authority. the secretary general's comments came during the security council meeting earlier today on the hamas-israeli war, he talked about the israeli occupation as you heard in his comments there's been not happen in a vacuum. that ignored the fact israel withdrew from gaza in 2005, and that the gazans elected hamas to the legislature and then the hamas movement overthrough fatah to control gaza. the foreign minister eli cohen said there are not two sides to this, seeming acceptance of the nazi-like behavior of hamas here in the halls of the general assembly, those defending not democracy and freedom, but the terrorists. >> right now there is small children babies in captive, any cause for this, there is no cause for this. and shame on him. >> in protest, the foreign minister canceled his meeting with guterres, as ambassador gilad says too many people here accept hamas's claims and mockery what the u.n. supposed to stand for. >> u.n. is failing and you have mr. s

. >> in response, the israeli ambassador to the un, gilad erdan, said this .an, said this. >> but the un is failing and the un is failing. >> but the un is failing and the un is failing . a new mr un is failing. a new mr secretary—general have lost all moral and impartiality because when you say those terrible words that these heinous attacks did not happen in a vacuum, you are tolerating terrorism . and by are tolerating terrorism. and by tolerating terrorism , terrorism, tolerating terrorism, terrorism, you are justifying , justifying you are justifying, justifying terrorism . terrorism. >> the u n terrorism. >> the un secretary general comments about the genocidal act of terrorism on the 7th of october seemed to justify it in some way. and whilst his response is somewhat cryptic, others have been even more explicit about this. take, for example al latifa, abu shakira , example al latifa, abu shakira, the woman. itv news , interviewed the woman. itv news, interviewed regarding islamophobia , who told regarding islamophobia, who told the channel it makes me f

ahead of it, the permanent representative of israel to the united nations, gilad erdan, spoke to thelet's hear what he had to say. the past days have been devastating for each and every israeli. israel's suffered an unprecedented attack and the number of casualties is catastrophic. truly unfathomable. over the past two days, following hamas�*s surprise attack on israel, my country has suffered hundreds of fatalities. yesterday, in the early morning of the jewish sabbath — and on a jewish holiday — savage hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets into israel. but this was only the beginning. as rockets rained down indiscriminately upon israeli towns and cities, hundreds of hamas terrorists infiltrated israel and began a barbaric pogrom. a barbaric pogrom of unparalleled magnitude. ruthless terrorists gunned down innocent israeli civilians in the streets, murdering anything that moved. as the security council prepares to meet today, israel has one sole demand — hamas�*s war crimes must be unequivocally condemned. this unimaginable atrocity must be condemned. israel must be given stea

. >> in response, the israeli ambassador to the un, gilad erdan, said this ., said this. >> but the un is failing and the un is failing. >> but the un is failing and the un is failing . a new mr un is failing. a new mr secretary—general have lost all moral and impartiality because when you say those terrible words that these heinous attacks did not happen in a vacuum, you are tolerating terrorism . and by are tolerating terrorism. and by tolerating terrorism , terrorism, tolerating terrorism, terrorism, you are justifying , justifying you are justifying, justifying terrorism . terrorism. >> the u n terrorism. >> the un secretary general comments about the genocidal act of terrorism on the 7th of october seemed to justify it in some way. and whilst his response is somewhat cryptic, others have been even more explicit about this. take, for example al latifa, abu shakira , example al latifa, abu shakira, the woman. itv news , interviewed the woman. itv news, interviewed regarding islamophobia , who told regarding islamophobia, who told the channel it makes me fee

i will quote what israeli ambassador erdan wrote gilad on his social media, the un secretary general's doesn't understand mass murder and barbaric cruelty, and it goes without saying that he doesn't understand what terrorism is, in fact, the israeli foreign minister was not impressed by the secretary general's comments, listen, our children have witnessed things that cannot be described in words, sir secretary general, what world do you live in? this is definitely not our world. this is a hamas terrorist, what he said in arabic, he told his mother and his father that he was proud, that he was proud to shed the blood of ten the jews he killed, what a monster they gave birth to, to the secretary general, this is the world we live in, foreign minister eli cohen, as we have learned, has canceled a planned meeting with secretary general antonio guterres, which was scheduled for this evening, should concentrate his efforts on making his own more effective, because it is completely useless, maybe then fewer such things would happen in the world, it’s so difficult, ranting from the outside, is